Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a severe stroke. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. He then has the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.
- sibling relationship
- mississippi river
- wisconsin
- lawnmower
- iowa
- melancholy
- biography
- based on true story
- road trip
- family relationships
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Donald Wiegert — Sig
- Tracey Maloney — Nurse
- Dan Flannery — Doctor Gibbons
- Jennifer Edwards — Brenda
- Ed Grennan — Pete
- Jack Walsh — Apple
- Gil Pearson — Bus Driver
- Barbara June Patterson — Woman on Bus
- Everett McGill — Tom the John Deere Dealer
- Anastasia Webb — Crystal
- Matt Guidry — Steve
- Directed
- David Lynch
- Written
- Mary Sweeney, John Roach
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 1,864 ratings
- Studio
- Les Films Alain Sarde, Picture Factory, Le Studio Canal+, Film4 Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
